From 1974 to 2012, during his years as publisher and editor-in-chief of the New Republic, Martin Peretz was a familiar presence on the political scene. In its time under his leadership, the magazine was always fresh, erudite, contrarian, and brave. Anyone interested in finding out the most distinctive expert takes on the issues that mattered-whether they be domestic or international, cultural or political-knew that the New Republic was required reading....

Este es un libro lleno de pensamientos, ideas , experiencias que he vivido y que Dios ha sembrado en mi corazón y mi mente para hacer uno de mis sueños realidad, se que me ha falta mucho por aprender pero estoy segura es que estoy afirmando mis pasos para seguir en proceso de creatividad.

When two or more people find sufficient in common to call themselves 'us', they will strengthen their togetherness by looking for a 'them' to dislike. INDARJIT'S LAW It's fashionable to talk of 'hate crime' as if a small minority of people are infected with a virus of hate against those they see as different. It is not like that. Prejudice and fear of difference affects us all. I learnt about my Sikh religion almost as an outsider looking in to...

Born into great privilege as a member of the wealthy Vanderbilt family, Anderson Cooper made his climb to the top of TV journalism on his own. Despite numerous losses in his personal life, Anderson strove forward, risking his own safety at times to cover numerous wars and natural disasters. As the longtime host of Anderson Cooper 360° and contributor to 60 Minutes, he still reports some of the most compelling news on television. Part of the Outstanding...

José Díaz-Balart's father called him 100 percent American and 100 percent Cuban. This seems an apt description of the dedicated journalist who has spent many days reporting the news in both English and Spanish. His ability to communicate in two languages has provided him with some of his biggest opportunities as a journalist. But it is his ability to connect with others that has made José Díaz-Balart such a respected name in the profession. Part...

This is the story of one of the most important American newspapermen of the twentieth century. Roy Howard rose to prominence at the height of newspapers' power and became a leader in the evolution of print news starting in 1908, when E. W. Scripps appointed him head of the fledgling United Press at age 25, through his tenure as chairman of the Scripps-Howard empire until 1952. As Howard expanded and modernized the business, he landed some of the most...

She was Australian born, an international bestselling author and a member of the glamorous literary, intellectual and society salons of late nineteenth and early twentieth century London and Europe She was 'amused, cynical, ironic, loving, gay, ferocious, cold, ardent but never gentle'. She was a whirlwind. She created around her the atmosphere of a Court, at which her friends were either in disgrace or favour, a butt or a blessing. Elizabeth von...

Award-winning Australian author Peter Thompson evokes the now-vanished world he encountered on joining 'Cudlipp's Circus' at the Daily Mirror in 1966, bringing to life the days when Fleet Street was the front-page equivalent of Dodge City and its pubs shuddered to the midnight roar of mighty rotary presses. The Mirror's daily quota of mischief, mayhem and madness attracted journalists from all over the globe. The columnist Cassandra called this convergence...

La noche en que Macri venció a Scioli en la segunda vuelta de las presidenciales, Diego Sztulwark le escribió a Horacio Verbitsky para insistirle en que era el momento de encarar un libro de balances. No de inventario de lo mal hecho, no de pase de facturas o de revisión frívola del pasado. De balances políticos. Vida de perro es ese libro. Más de medio siglo de historia argentina desde la mirada de un personaje memorioso, selectivo, intolerante...

Se termina de leer este libro La Universidad de mi Vida, agotado, emocionado, admirado, lleno de una serie de sensaciones extraordinarias. Porque ese empirismo que relata Jota se convierte en una tesis laureada en la "universidad de la vida" y en cualquier parte del mundo. La espeluznante descripción de su hijo Jorge sobre su pasión, muerte y resurrección es de una precisión de relojero, de un apóstol de la vida, de quien lleva la vena periodística...